Word: coin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sells for more than $2,000. And the Spiro Agnew bottle, ordered by the G.O.P. National Committee and presented to contributors at a $150-a-plate dinner in Washington, D.C., last year, today commands a cool $2,800. Al Cembura, who sees the fad supplanting the ebbing enthusiasm for coin and gun collecting, insists happily that "this is just the beginning...
...often illegal. He smuggled and traded in the black market. When necessary (which was often), the subcommittee was told, he bribed or pressured high-ranking civilian and military personnel. At one point, he held a virtual monopoly on the sales of all slot and pinball machines, jukeboxes and other coin-operated amusements to U.S. military establishments in Viet Nam. For a period of three years, if there was something for sale in Viet Nam, Crum probably sold...
...began to expand in earnest, Crum's PX monopolies did too. Along with his contracts for coin-operated amusements, he wangled the exclusive distributorship for Mandarin Textiles' Dynasty fashions in PXs and NCO clubs. He became a representative for the James B. Beam Distilling Co. of Chicago and the Carling Brewing Co. of Cleveland. He also kept up his lucrative side trade in such goods as freezers and air conditioners, many of which were conveniently-and illegally -stored on a base under the eye of his good friend, General Cole, the Senators were told...
...First mention of the penny, the oldest English coin, occurred in the laws of the West Saxon King Ine, who ruled between 688 and 726. The first pennies were struck in silver about 770, and some time after that it was discovered that 240 coins could be minted from a pound of silver. The shilling came along in 1504, its name a derivation of the Old English word settling, meaning cutting or slicing...
...took the powers-that-be about a year and a half to set up the Committee of Inquiry. In that time, the other side of the coin, the CRR and its predecessors, had punished in various ways over 220 students. Fifty-six students were required to leave Harvard. The Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities is in theory a two-way street, but in fact the traffic only flows one way: "We're right, you're responsible...